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| Contest #48 - February 12, 2006 |
| 1. What type of occasion is shown in this picture? 2. What was the occupation of the person whose occasion is shown? Difficult Bonus Question: Who was the person? |
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| Answers: 1. A funeral 2. Royalty Bonus Question: Queen Victoria |
Funeral: There are many items in this picture that indicate the event is a funeral. These
include the sprays of flowers are arranged around the coffin to the center left of the
photo. Another element is the picture on the far wall, which shows an angel above a
reclining figure (perhaps a corpse). (The name of the painting is The Entombment.)
There is also part of a sarcophagus shown in the left foreground with an effigy on the lid.
Occupation: The guard standing before the coffin indicates that the person was highly
placed - perhaps military or royalty. The crown resting on top of the coffin gives away
the fact that the deceased was a monarch.
Who: We had many answers to this question: Prince Albert, King George V, King
Edward VII, even Ataturk. (Ataturk was an interesting guess, since the guard might
appear to be dark-skinned and perhaps Turkish. But Ataturk was not a member of
royalty.)
My advice to everyone who wrote in with one of these answers was to find someone
who died closer to the end of the Victorian Era (ha ha).
include the sprays of flowers are arranged around the coffin to the center left of the
photo. Another element is the picture on the far wall, which shows an angel above a
reclining figure (perhaps a corpse). (The name of the painting is The Entombment.)
There is also part of a sarcophagus shown in the left foreground with an effigy on the lid.
Occupation: The guard standing before the coffin indicates that the person was highly
placed - perhaps military or royalty. The crown resting on top of the coffin gives away
the fact that the deceased was a monarch.
Who: We had many answers to this question: Prince Albert, King George V, King
Edward VII, even Ataturk. (Ataturk was an interesting guess, since the guard might
appear to be dark-skinned and perhaps Turkish. But Ataturk was not a member of
royalty.)
My advice to everyone who wrote in with one of these answers was to find someone
who died closer to the end of the Victorian Era (ha ha).
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| The Grenadier Guard |
The Queen's Guard and Queen's
Life Guard are the names given to
contingents of cavalry and
infantry soldiers charged with
guarding the official royal
residences in London. The British
Army has had regiments of both
Horse Guards and Foot Guards
since before the restoration of
King Charles II, and, since 1660,
these have been responsible for
guarding the Sovereign Palaces.
The Queen's Guard is responsible
for guarding Buckingham Palace
and St. James's Palace (including
Life Guard are the names given to
contingents of cavalry and
infantry soldiers charged with
guarding the official royal
residences in London. The British
Army has had regiments of both
Horse Guards and Foot Guards
since before the restoration of
King Charles II, and, since 1660,
these have been responsible for
guarding the Sovereign Palaces.
The Queen's Guard is responsible
for guarding Buckingham Palace
and St. James's Palace (including
| Changing of the Guard, Buckingham Palace |
Clarence House) in London. The Grenadier Guards is the most senior regiment of the
Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of
infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being
attributed to the Life Guards. The Coldstream Guards were organized before
theGrenadier Guards, but their regiment is reckoned after the Grenadiers in seniority.
The grouping of buttons on the tunic is a common way to distinguish between the
regiments of Foot Guards. Grenadier Guards' buttons are equally spaced and embossed
with the Royal Cypher. Modern Grenadier Guardsmen wear a cap badge of a "grenade
fired proper".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Guard.
Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of
infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being
attributed to the Life Guards. The Coldstream Guards were organized before
theGrenadier Guards, but their regiment is reckoned after the Grenadiers in seniority.
The grouping of buttons on the tunic is a common way to distinguish between the
regiments of Foot Guards. Grenadier Guards' buttons are equally spaced and embossed
with the Royal Cypher. Modern Grenadier Guardsmen wear a cap badge of a "grenade
fired proper".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Guard.
| The Crown |
St Edward's Crown is one of the British Crown Jewels.
It is the official coronation crown used exclusively in the
coronation of a new monarch. It was made in 1661 for
the coronation of King Charles II, and is reputed to
contain gold from the Crown of St Edward the
Confessor, an English monarch who reigned in the
eleventh century.
Traditionally, it is the Crown used to crown the
Sovereign during a coronation. Queen Victoria and
Edward VII chose not to be crowned in it because it
weighs 4 lb 12 oz (2.155 kg). They chose to be crowned
with the lighter Imperial State Crown.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edward's_Crown.
It is the official coronation crown used exclusively in the
coronation of a new monarch. It was made in 1661 for
the coronation of King Charles II, and is reputed to
contain gold from the Crown of St Edward the
Confessor, an English monarch who reigned in the
eleventh century.
Traditionally, it is the Crown used to crown the
Sovereign during a coronation. Queen Victoria and
Edward VII chose not to be crowned in it because it
weighs 4 lb 12 oz (2.155 kg). They chose to be crowned
with the lighter Imperial State Crown.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Edward's_Crown.
| St. Edward's Crown This image is protected by British Crown copyright. Click here for source. |
The funeral must be that of a British Monarch, as St. Edward's Crown is displayed on
top of the coffin.
| The Monarch |
There have been only five funerals of British Monarchs within the time period of
modern photography:
modern photography:
| Queen Victoria (1901) Edward VII (1910) George V (1936) George VI (1952) Queen Mother (2002) See http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/royalfunerals/index.html |
The Queen Mother can probably be ruled out as being too recent for this older style
photo. If you start with Queen Victoria, the oldest possibility, you will discover other
photos that look very much like the quiz photo, but from a different angle. The picture
is that of the coffin of Queen Victoria as she lay in state in the Albert Memorial Chapel,
February 2 - 4, 1901.
photo. If you start with Queen Victoria, the oldest possibility, you will discover other
photos that look very much like the quiz photo, but from a different angle. The picture
is that of the coffin of Queen Victoria as she lay in state in the Albert Memorial Chapel,
February 2 - 4, 1901.
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| Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) |
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (b. 24 May 1819,
d. 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June
1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877,
until her death. Her reign lasted more than
sixty-three years, longer than that of any other
British monarch. As well as being Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she
was also the first monarch to use the title Empress
of India. The reign of Victoria was marked by a
great expansion of the British Empire. The
Victorian Era was at the height of the Industrial
Revolution, a period of significant social,
economic, and technological change in the United
Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the
House of Hanover; her successor belonged to the
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
d. 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June
1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877,
until her death. Her reign lasted more than
sixty-three years, longer than that of any other
British monarch. As well as being Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, she
was also the first monarch to use the title Empress
of India. The reign of Victoria was marked by a
great expansion of the British Empire. The
Victorian Era was at the height of the Industrial
Revolution, a period of significant social,
economic, and technological change in the United
Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the
House of Hanover; her successor belonged to the
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent and Strathearn,
was the fourth son of King George III. The Duke of
Kent and Strathearn, like many other sons of George
III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son,
the Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), did
marry, but had only a daughter, Princess Charlotte
Augusta of Wales. When she died in 1817, the
remaining unmarried sons of King George III
scrambled to marry (the Prince Regent and the Duke
of York were already married, but estranged from
their wives) and father children to provide an heir for
the king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and
Strathearn married Princess Viktoria of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess
Charlotte's widower Prince Leopold of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and widow of Karl, Prince of
Leiningen. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was
born in Kensington Palace, London on 24 May 1819.
She was baptised in the Cupola Room of Kensington
Palace on 24 June 1819 by Charles Manners-Sutton,
Archbishop of Canterbury and her godparents were
the Prince Regent, the Emperor Alexander I of Russia
(in whose honour she received her first name), Queen
Charlotte of Württemberg and the Dowager Duchess
of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
| Victoria's Mother and Father |
| Where Did the Windsors Come From? |
Victoria belonged to the House of Hanover, whereby some assign the surname d'Este
or the surname Guelph to her though she never needed to use any surname (some other
descendants of the House of Hanover have used the surname Hanover in Britain). Her
husband belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and accordingly at
Victoria's death, that House ascended the British throne in person of her son and heir
Edward VII - according to custom of nobles and royals, a wife never gains the
membership of her husband's house, but remains as belonging to her own and thus
Victoria was not of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As a married woman, most
genealogists assign to her the surname von Wettin, based on the advice of the College
of Heralds. She is therefore sometimes referred to as Alexandrina Victoria von Wettin,
née Hanover.
While Albert was of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the German house was
descended from the Ernestine Branch of the Wettin dynasty. Victoria asked her staff to
determine what Albert's and now her own marital surname was. After examining
records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported that her husband's
personal surname, as was the case with other members of both the Ernestine and
Albertine branches, was Wettin (or von Wettin). Queen Victoria's papers record her
dislike of the name. Her grandson, George V, again explored the issue when changing
both the surname and Royal House name in 1917 to Windsor. The College of Heralds
again informed him that his family surname prior to the change was Wettin. In the
1958 an Order-in-Council adapted the 1917 decision by granting some of Queen
Elizabeth II's descendants the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. This does not apply to
the Prince of Wales or either of his sons, however; but only to those descendants of
the Queen and Prince Philip who never come to the throne. By statute, 'all' reigning
sovereigns from 1917 onward bear the surname "Windsor," whether they were born
with it or not.
or the surname Guelph to her though she never needed to use any surname (some other
descendants of the House of Hanover have used the surname Hanover in Britain). Her
husband belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and accordingly at
Victoria's death, that House ascended the British throne in person of her son and heir
Edward VII - according to custom of nobles and royals, a wife never gains the
membership of her husband's house, but remains as belonging to her own and thus
Victoria was not of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As a married woman, most
genealogists assign to her the surname von Wettin, based on the advice of the College
of Heralds. She is therefore sometimes referred to as Alexandrina Victoria von Wettin,
née Hanover.
While Albert was of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the German house was
descended from the Ernestine Branch of the Wettin dynasty. Victoria asked her staff to
determine what Albert's and now her own marital surname was. After examining
records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported that her husband's
personal surname, as was the case with other members of both the Ernestine and
Albertine branches, was Wettin (or von Wettin). Queen Victoria's papers record her
dislike of the name. Her grandson, George V, again explored the issue when changing
both the surname and Royal House name in 1917 to Windsor. The College of Heralds
again informed him that his family surname prior to the change was Wettin. In the
1958 an Order-in-Council adapted the 1917 decision by granting some of Queen
Elizabeth II's descendants the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. This does not apply to
the Prince of Wales or either of his sons, however; but only to those descendants of
the Queen and Prince Philip who never come to the throne. By statute, 'all' reigning
sovereigns from 1917 onward bear the surname "Windsor," whether they were born
with it or not.
| Victoria's Children |
| The Princess Royal |
| King Edward VII |
| Victoria's Children |
Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Princess Royal
21 November 1840 - 5 August 1901
m. 1858, Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia
King Edward VII (Albert Edward)
9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910
m. 1863, Princess Alexandra of Denmark
The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary)
25 April 1843 - 14 December 1878
m. 1862, Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh
(Alfred Ernest Albert)
6 August 1844 - 31 July 1900
m. 1874, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria)
25 May 1846 - 9 June 1923
m. 1866, HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
The Princess Louise (Louise Caroline Alberta)
18 March 1848 - 3 December 1939
m. 1871, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert)
1 May 1850 - 16 January 1942
m. 1879, Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert)
7 April 1853 - 28 March 1884
m. 1882, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
The Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Feodore Victoria)
14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944
m. 1885, HRH Prince Henry of Battenberg
Of the current line of succession to the British throne, the first 512 people listed are
descended from Victoria. Queen Victoria outlived three of her nine children.
For further information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_victoria#Children and
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgleopold.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/jesusib/Helena.html.
21 November 1840 - 5 August 1901
m. 1858, Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia
King Edward VII (Albert Edward)
9 November 1841 - 6 May 1910
m. 1863, Princess Alexandra of Denmark
The Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary)
25 April 1843 - 14 December 1878
m. 1862, Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh
(Alfred Ernest Albert)
6 August 1844 - 31 July 1900
m. 1874, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia
The Princess Helena (Helena Augusta Victoria)
25 May 1846 - 9 June 1923
m. 1866, HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
The Princess Louise (Louise Caroline Alberta)
18 March 1848 - 3 December 1939
m. 1871, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert)
1 May 1850 - 16 January 1942
m. 1879, Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (Leopold George Duncan Albert)
7 April 1853 - 28 March 1884
m. 1882, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont
The Princess Beatrice (Beatrice Mary Feodore Victoria)
14 April 1857 - 26 October 1944
m. 1885, HRH Prince Henry of Battenberg
Of the current line of succession to the British throne, the first 512 people listed are
descended from Victoria. Queen Victoria outlived three of her nine children.
For further information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_victoria#Children and
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgleopold.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/jesusib/Helena.html.
| The Princess Alice |
| The Prince Alfred |
| The Princess Helena |
| The Princess Louise |
| The Prince Leopold |
| Interesting Photographs of Queen Victoria and Her Descendents |
| The Princess Beatrice |
| Queen Victoria with her five eldest children (Alice, Helena, Alfred, Bertie, Vicky) in 1850 |
| First ever photograph of Queen Victoria (with Bertie), 1844 |
Princesses Alice, Helena, Beatrice,
Vicky and Louise with bust of Prince
Albert after His Death in 1861
Vicky and Louise with bust of Prince
Albert after His Death in 1861
| Victoria and Albert, 1854 |
Queen Victoria's children at Prince
Albert's birthplace (Rosenau) in 1865;
l to r Leopold, Louise, Beatrice, Alice,
Bertie, Arthur, Vicky, Alfred, Helena
Albert's birthplace (Rosenau) in 1865;
l to r Leopold, Louise, Beatrice, Alice,
Bertie, Arthur, Vicky, Alfred, Helena
| Jubilee portrait of Queen and Prince and Princess of Wales, 1887 |
| Queen Victoria with future Edward VII, George V and Edward VIII, in 1894 |
Queen Victoria, Prince of Wales,
Prince George (later George V) and
Prince Edward (later Edward VIII),
1899
Prince George (later George V) and
Prince Edward (later Edward VIII),
1899
| For more pictures of Queen Victoria and her family, please see http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/ |
| Diamond Jubilee photo of Queen Victoria, 1897 |
| Queen Victoria's Death and Funeral |
Queen Victoria died on 22nd January 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight and
was buried in The Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor, on 4th February 1901 following a
State Funeral in St. George's Chapel on 2nd February 1901. After the funeral her coffin
lay-in-state in The Albert Memorial Chapel for two days and was then taken to The
Mausoleum by The Royal Horse Artillery. Her son, Edward, had been proclaimed King
Edward VII. She had reigned for sixty-three years, seven months, and two days, more
than any British monarch before or since.
Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, who reigned as King
Edward VII. Victoria's death brought an end to the rule of the House of Hanover in the
United Kingdom; King Edward VII, like his father Prince Albert, belonged to the House
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. King Edward VII's son and successor, King George V, changed
the name of the Royal House to Windsor during the First World War. (The name
"Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" was associated with the enemy of the United Kingdom during the
war, Germany, led by her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II.)
was buried in The Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor, on 4th February 1901 following a
State Funeral in St. George's Chapel on 2nd February 1901. After the funeral her coffin
lay-in-state in The Albert Memorial Chapel for two days and was then taken to The
Mausoleum by The Royal Horse Artillery. Her son, Edward, had been proclaimed King
Edward VII. She had reigned for sixty-three years, seven months, and two days, more
than any British monarch before or since.
Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, who reigned as King
Edward VII. Victoria's death brought an end to the rule of the House of Hanover in the
United Kingdom; King Edward VII, like his father Prince Albert, belonged to the House
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. King Edward VII's son and successor, King George V, changed
the name of the Royal House to Windsor during the First World War. (The name
"Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" was associated with the enemy of the United Kingdom during the
war, Germany, led by her grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II.)
| Interior of royal mausoleum at Frogmore, with Albert's tomb, 1864 |
| The funeral cortege on its way to St George's Chapel. 2nd February 1901. |
After the funeral service, officers of
The Grenadier Guards guarded the
body of the late Queen Victoria during
the Lying in State in The Albert
Memorial Chapel, 2nd - 4th February,
1901.
The Grenadier Guards guarded the
body of the late Queen Victoria during
the Lying in State in The Albert
Memorial Chapel, 2nd - 4th February,
1901.
The cortege passes along the Long
Walk on its way to Frogmore
Mausoleum on 4th February 1901
Walk on its way to Frogmore
Mausoleum on 4th February 1901
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